Elder Law Resources
Below are links to articles and other helpful Elder Law resources.
The contents are only intended as general legal information and should not form the basis for legal advice of any kind. Every effort has been taken to ensure the accuracy of the information provided; however, laws frequently change and every situation is different, so please contact a experienced elder law attorney before taking action using this information.
Elder Care
- Assisted Living Company Begins Purge of Residents on Medicaid
- Caregiver Burnout - Adult Day Care Services to the Rescue
- Caregiving Stress - Hazardous to Your Health and Sometimes Deadly
- Coming Soon: Five-Star Rating System for Nursing Homes
- Cost of Adult Day Centers Rises
- Dealing with the Sudden Crisis of Eldercare
- Federal Nursing Home Site Now Notes Troubled Facilities
- Feds Finally Release Complete List of Deficient Nursing Homes
- Feds Publish List of 54 Poorest-Performing Nursing Homes
- Getting the Government to Pay Family Caregivers
- Group Forms to Advocate on Behalf of Assisted Living Residents
- Harmful Nursing Homes Largely Escape Penalties, Report Finds
- Home Health Agency Care
- Hospice Care
- How Parents Can Provide for a Caregiver Child
- How to Choose A Nursing Home
- How to Fight a Nursing Home Discharge
- Identifying and Dealing With Financial Abuse of the Elderly
- Is It Time For a Life Insurance Audit?
- Law Enacted Offering Caregivers Some Relief
- New Web Site Invites Reviews of Nursing Homes and Other Senior Care Services
- Nursing Home Assessed for Failing to Honor Patients with Living Will
- Nursing Homes Evicting Costly Residents at a Faster Pace, the Wall Street Journal Reports
- Nursing Home Quality Twenty Years After the Nursing Home Reform Act
- Nursing Home Room Now Averages $75,000 A Year, Study Finds
- "Parenting" Our Parents
- Protecting Your House After You Move Into a Nursing Home
- Retirement Home Resident Fights Move to Increased Level of Care
- The Best Health Care System in America
- Use of Nursing Home Restraints Has Declined
- Using A Professional Care Manager
- Medical Care at the End-Of-Life
- Should You Sign a Nursing Home Admission Agreement?
- Strategies to Reduce Caregiver Stress
- Study Suggests Medicaid-Sponsored Home Care Reduces Nursing Home Use
General
- 10 Elder-Friendly Bills in Congress That May Now Have New Life
- 10 Million Boomers Will Develop Alzheimer's, Report Predicts
- A Brief Overview of Dementia
- A Roundup of Key Elder Law Numbers for 2009
- Avoid Sibling Disputes Over Caregiving By Putting It in Writing
- Banks Illegally Garnishing Social Security Benefits
- Be Certain You Get the Pension You've Earned
- Bringing It All Back Home: New Groups Help Elderly Age in Place
- Can an Employer Cut Retiree Health Benefits?
- Choosing a Life Insurance Policy
- Department of Commerce Offers up to $80 to Help Seniors and Others Convert to HDTV
- Does Your Will Name an Alternate Beneficiary?
- Do I Qualify for Elder Law?
- Economic Stimulus Payments Not Income for SSI or Part D Help
- Elder Law - HALF a Penny for Your thoughts
- Elder Law - Having Faith in the Law
- Elder Law - Help for Long Term Care Planning
- Elder Law - Imagine the Death of the Big Bad Wolf
- Elder Mediation Resolves Family Conflicts
- GAO Study Finds Transfers by Elderly are Infrequent and Small
- Holiday Blues - Depression in the Elderly
- Home Health Agency Care
- How a Guardian Is Appointed
- How Does Work Affect Your Social Security Payments?
- How is the Economic Turmoil Affecting Older Americans?
- How to Prepare When Elderly Parents Move In With Adult Children
- How Will The New Congress Affect Key Elder Law Issues?
- Is It Better to Remarry or Just Live Together?
- Is Now a Good Time to Give Your House to Your Children?
- Lawsuits Claim Elderly Should Be Protected From Their Bad Decisions
- Life Settlements: Cash for Your Life Insurance Policy
- Make Sure Your Plan Beneficiaries Are Up To Date
- Mass. Elder Abuse on Rise
- More Seniors Turning to Free Food Programs
- Online Calculator Gives Personalized Estimate of Future Social Security Benefit
- Retiring on Obama's Watch: What to Expect From 44
- SEC Finds Fraud at Investment Seminars for Seniors
- Second Marriage and Life Insurance
- Senior Centers May Be Liable for Aiding Elder Financial Abuse
- Senior Move Managers Help Make Moving Easier
- Seniors Relocation and Real Estate Services
- Shady Pines - Rock N' Roll Style
- Social Security Benefits to Rise 2.3 Percent
- Social Security Benefits to Rise 5.8 Percent, Biggest Leap Since 1982
- Spouses' Guesses About End-of-Life Wishes Not Always Accurate
- States Go After Living Trust Scams
- Taking a Second Look If You Elected Early Social Security Benefits
- Tax Deductions for Assisted Living Costs
- The Bias of Medical Care Providers Towards Aging
- The Top 10 Health Care Mistakes Made By The Elderly
- Using a Consultant to Obtain the Veterans Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit
- Using a Consultant to Obtain the Veterans Aid and Attendance Pension Benefit
- Web Site Allows Elderly to Check Program Eligibility
- Web Site Combats Annuity Sales Abuses
- Welcome to Boston, AARP
- When Getting Financial Advice, Don't Be Fooled by Impressive-Sounding Credentials
- Where Do The Presidential Candidates Stand on LTC, Social Security?
- Why Do Married Men Claim Social Security Benefits So Early?
Long Term Care
- 10 Steps to Less Stressful Caretaking
- Continuing Care Retirement Community Options Are Growing
- Cost of Long-Term Care Continues to Rise, 2008 Survey Finds
- Elder Law - Help for Long Term Care Planning
- Feds Launch New Website Promoting LTC Planning
- Guide to Long Term Care Planning
- Hidden Government Program Pays the Cost of Home Care
- How Would the Presidential Candidates Make Long-Term Care More Affordable?
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2008
- IRS Issues Long-Term Care Premium Deductibility Limits for 2009
- Long Term Care - An Impending Crisis for the Elderly
- Long-Term Care Benefits for Veterans and Surviving Spouses
- Long Term Care Insurance
- Long-Term Care Insurance Giant Raises Premiums on Existing Customers for First Time
- Long-Term Care in a Post-DRA World: Understanding How the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Changes Medicaid Planning
- Medicaid Rules for Long Term Care
- Misconceptions About Who Pays for Long Term Care
- Most Misunderstand LTC Costs and Coverage, AARP Survey Finds
- New Years Resolution - Plan for Long Term Care
- Nursing Home Abolitionist Offers Homelike Alternative
- Planning for Long Term Care
- Report Finds States Vary in Ability to Hold Down LTC Insurance Premium Hikes
- Retired Couples Will Need Average of $85,000 for Long-Term Care Insurance Premiums
- Should You Sign a Nursing Home Admission Agreement?
- The 4 Steps of Long Term Care Planning
- The Problem with Government Long Term Care
- Tightening Medicaid Will Not Increase LTC
- Using Annuities for Long-Term Care Planning
- Veterans Long Term Care Benefits
- What Does the Recession Mean for Long-Term Care?
- What Nursing Home Staff Levels Are Required
Medicaid
- Amounts Spouses of Medicaid Recipients May Keep in 2008 Are Released
- Annuity Payable Solely to Community Spouse Not Available to Institutionalized Spouse
- Assisted Living Company Begins Purge of Residents on Medicaid
- Family Care Agreements: More Findings from the DRA Implementation Survey
- Findings from the DRA Implementation Survey: Other Techniques
- GAO Study Finds Transfers by Elderly are Infrequent and Small
- It's Official: Draconian New Medicaid Transfer Rules Enacted
- Judge Dismisses Suit Challenging Constitutionality of DRA
- Long-Term Care in a Post-DRA World: Understanding How the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 Changes Medicaid Planning
- Medicaid Agency's Residency Requirement Violates U.S. Constitution
- Medicaid Costs Down Medicare Costs Up
- Medicaid Planning
- Medicaid Proposes Allowing Recipients to Direct Own Home Care
- Medicaid Recovery of Home Catches Many Families By Surprise
- Medicaid Rules for Long Term Care
- No Equitable Relief for Man Who Transferred Assets in Order to Defraud Medicaid
- Panel Announces Recommendations for Medicaid Reform
- Receiving an Inheritance While on Medicaid
- Review of Recent Changes to Medicaid
- SOL Bars State's Medicaid Claims Against Decedents' Estates
- Tightening Medicaid Will Not Increase LTC
- Understanding Medicaid Planning Opportunities For Your Clients and You
- Understanding the Linkage Between Reverse Mortgages, Medicaid and SSI
- Jointly-Owned Savings Bonds Available to Medicaid Applicant
- Medicaid
- Planning For Medicaid
- Transfer of Assets to Spouse for Medicaid Planning Creates Constructive Trust
Medicare
- About New Medicare Plans
- Are You Sitting Down? Medicare Premium to Remain Unchanged in 2009
- Beware of Medicare Part D Scammers
- Coordinating Medicare and Employment Coverage
- Court Rules Medicare Must Make Doctor Performance Data Public
- Democrats Plan to Tackle Part D
- How Medicare Beneficiaries Can Fight a Hospital Discharge
- Medicare Advantage Plan Investigated for Abusive Marketing to Elderly Poor
- Medicaid Costs Down Medicare Costs Up
- Medicare Continue to Reduce Improper Claims Payments
- Medicare Drug Plan Prices to Increase After All
- Medicare Enrollment Starts November 15, 2008
- Medicare Handbook Controversy
- Medicare Open Enrollment Season Has Begun
- Medicare Part D Enrollment Begins November 15
- New Medicare Premium, Deductible, and Coinsurance Charges for 2008
- New Rules Spell Out Rights of Medicare Hospice Patients
- Nursing Report: Medicare Advantage Plans Can Be Too Good To Be True
- Private Medicare Plans Accused of Using Shady Marketing Tactics
- Survey Reveals Serious Flaws with Medicare Advantage Plans
- Understanding Medicare Private Fee-for-Service Plans
- New Notice Rules Help Medicare Beneficiaries Fight a Hospital Discharge
- What To Do When Medicare Says No
Reverse Mortgages
- Forward on Reverse: A Conversation With Elder Law Attorney John Gosselin: Part I
- Forward on Reverse: Traps for the Wary: Reverse Mortgages and Healthcare Benefits
- Forward on Reverse: Traps for the Wary: Reverse Mortgages and Healthcare Benefits
- National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association Releases 2nd Quarter RMMI Results
- New Law Makes Changes to Reverse Mortgages
- Report, Senate Hearing Highlight Successes, Problems with Reverse Mortgages
- Reverse Mortgage - A Happy Pill?
- Reverse Mortgage Alphabet Soup - FHA; HECM; MIP; NRMLA; H.R. 1825
- Reverse Mortgage - Forward Thinking
- Reverse Mortgage Company Chicken Dinner
- For Seniors Finally Something They Really Can Reverse: Their Mortgages
- Reverse Mortgage: Reverse Mortgage Mayhem and Irish Redemption
- Reverse Mortgage Loans
- All Hail Reverse Mortgages! Alia Acta Est!
- Reverse Mortgages - It's Prime Time for Reverse Mortgages
- Reverse Mortgages - Mortgages are Mortgages, Right?